Our Link Manager is a tool for you to track the status of links that you have added to our system - backlinks that you have achieved through link exchange, paid links, promotions, news articles, etc. (it is not a link discovery tool).

Tools

Profiles for Rank & Link Reporting

Profiles can be used to link a rank tracking campaign to a tracked link, or group of links, for presentation in PDF reports, Marketing Dashboards, or Client Dashboards. After creating a profile:

1. Set the Rank Tracking Campaign Profile

In the Campaign General Settings screen

Click the Advanced Settings button

Select the Profile from the list

Click the Save button.

2. Set the Link Profile

Open the Link Details screen for the link (or do this while creating the link):

Select the Profile from the list

Click the Save button.

Bulk Update Link Profiles

Updating link profiles can be accomplished quickly by filtering the links in Campaigns > Link Manager, and then:

Select the links that need a profile update

Click the Bulk Actions button

Select the Profile

Click the Assign Profile button

Define the Link Settings for a Rank Tracking Campaign

After adding profiles to links you can create default report settings for each campaign (this only needs to be done once). When you open the Link Dashboard report report:

Select the rank tracking Campaign Name in the top right toolbar

Expand Report Options and select the Profile for that campaign (and any other display settings you want)

Click Apply Changes

Expand Report Options and create Default Report Settings for that campaign by hovering over the Save icon and selecting Campaign.

You can then save the same settings as Client Dashboard default for that campaign.

After setting the default for each campaign, when you toggle between campaigns in the top right toolbar, only the links that you've connected to each campaign via a profile will display in the report. You can then add that report with those settings to a PDF Report or Marketing Dashboard by hovering over the gear icon in the report tool bar and selecting the option you want.

Select a Drive Connection and click the Save button. When successfully connected, the Google Drive user's name and usage statistics display.

Add Files to Link Details

After connecting a Google Drive to Link Manager, open the Campaigns > Link Manager screen and click the Edit (pencil) icon for an individual link.

Scroll down the screen to the Files & Documents section.

Click the Choose File button, navigate to and select the file on your computer.

Click the Upload button

Successful File Upload to Google Drive

When files display in the Files & Documents section of a Link Details screen, they have been successfully uploaded to the Google Drive account connected in the Localization & Settings screen.
From here authorized users of the Rank Ranger account can download or delete the files.

Google Drive Link Manager Folders

Each individual Link is assigned an ID in the Link Manager and those IDs become the folder names in the Google Drive connected to the Rank Ranger account. Folders can be shared, renamed and moved to other locations in Google Drive as needed.
Files can be deleted from the Link Details screen by an authorized user* or from Google Drive.

*By default, a user can only manage the links s/he created unless "Manage Account Links" permission is granted by the account administrator (refer to Manage Users permissions).

Add Link Notes for display in Rank Reports & Graphs

You can add notes directly from the Link Details screen, associate the note with a rank tracking campaign and even an individual keyword.

Add a Link Note
After a link has been created, you'll see additional functions in the upper right of the Link Details screen: + Add Note and Duplicate buttons.

Note Details
Clicking the + Add Note button launches a Notes detail screen with the Description automatically containing the basic information for that link. You may select for the note to display for a single date or date range, choose a color, select a campaign and even a specific keyword to apply the note to.

Note in Daily Snapshot
In this example hovering over a date that has a colored note indicator displays the text that you place in the note Description field (Notes must be enabled in Report Options).

Visibility Graph
In this example, multiple notes display as color highlights in the Visibility Graph and can be read by hovering over any highlighted area.

The above are just a few examples of reports and graphs that support the display of Notes.

Notes in Link Manager Reports
To create a note for display in a Link Manager reports, enter text in the Additional Information > Notes field and Save.

Link Dashboard display of Notes
In this example, clicking the Notes icon pops up the display of the note text.